SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired – Dec 3, 2014) – MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced that Chief Application Architect Ted Dunning will present at the upcoming Digital Oilfields USA Summit held in Houston, TX. Additionally in December, MapR will speak on various Hadoop and big data topics at several regional meet ups.
Hadoop is a significant aid in streamlining the oil and gas production industry, from testing and verifying potential drilling sites and oil extraction to ensuring equipment safety and minimizing environmental damage. The IQPC Digital Oilfields USA Summit addresses the complexity of retrieving, managing and analyzing the right data from oilfield operations. As a sponsor, MapR will also showcase its Hadoop distribution offerings at the event. For more information, click here.
Details on Dunning’s presentation:
When: Tuesday, December 9 at 2:30 PM CT
Where: Wyndham Houston West Energy Corridor, Houston, TX
What: Dunning will present a session titled: “How Savings Bits Can Save Billions.” He will discuss the process of using big data technology to better process and analyze large volumes of data.
MapR will also present at Big Data Boot Camp in Tampa, FL on December 6, Seattle Scalability Meetup in Seattle, WA on December 3, and the Houston Hadoop Meetup in Houston, TX on December 10.
About MapR Technologies
MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop with a proven, enterprise-grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-time production uses. MapR brings unprecedented dependability, ease-of-use and world-record speed to Hadoop, NoSQL, database and streaming applications in one unified distribution for Hadoop. MapR is used by more than 500 customers across financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and telecommunications as well as by leading Global 2000 and Web 2.0 companies. Amazon, Cisco, Google and HP are part of the broad MapR partner ecosystem. Investors include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. MapR is based in San Jose, CA. Connect with MapR on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook,
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